Ecobuild Courses

We are hosting our wedding fair evening at Rock Farm Slane on Thursday 29.06.2017 from 5pm

*Pre-booking for this couples-only event is essential as we only have a limited number of spaces*

We will be showing people around in groups in half hour slots from 5pm. If you would like to meet with one of our wedding coordinators and discuss your ideas please book your free consultation here.

Please also select a suitable time for your viewing and we will confirm available times with you or click here for more information. 

If you haven't seen us before, Take a peek at our video  to see what Rock Farm has to offer or visit www.rockfarmslane.ie for more information

What's on offer

This will give couples the opportunity to see what Rock Farm has to offer for weddings. We have a unique wedding venue which gives couples the opportunity to create their own bespoke wedding. Simply decide on venue setting, menu, theme and size of wedding and we can prepare a costing to suit your budget.

On the weekend of the wedding fair we will be showing our brand-new wedding venue the Hay Barn which is under development and will open this year. As well as showcasing the Hay Barn we will also be showing our eco guest lodge the Lime House which can hold up to 70, we can also accommodate large wedding parties in a marquee to the front of the Lime House. Faoi na Realtai will be here on the day with their beautiful tipi tent set up on the glamp site with Slane Castle as a backdrop.

If you are looking for a real festival feel for your wedding, then you can have a marquee on the glamp site with the yurts in the background and a view of Slane Castle to the front of the marquee. This is a very magical setting and gives a laid-back festival feel. Another option for a glamp site is our event tent in front of the Shack with straw bales and a pig on a spit nearby, then the party can continue to the Hay Barn for dancing and music or a trad session around the campfire which is another popular option. Rock Farm is also an organic farm and we can provide a pig on spit with salads and veg from out polytunnels. We also have a cut flower garden and we can provide flowers for your wedding.

 We have a choice of accommodation for wedding guests to stay in. They can enjoy a back to nature setting by staying on the glamp site or they can stay in our new eco guest lodge the Lime House. There will be an opportunity during the show around to view the different types of accommodation. For the couple, we recommend the Swallow's Nest which is set out on its own and has views of the natural swimming pool.

The beauty of our two-day wedding is there no rushing off the next day and you get the chance to relax and spend time with family and friends before they leave. There a number of different catering options available for day after wedding events including a BBQ or cooking pizzas in the clay pizza oven. There also lots of onsite activities to keep your wedding guests busy, why not organise a kayaking trip down the River Boyne or tree climbing.

Straw Fest  

1st October 2017 

 A Mini Food & Music Festival

 at Rock Farm Slane

Straw Fest is an Autumn celebration of artisan and organic food supported by the Boyne Valley Food Seriesand Slane Food Circle. It is also part of our relatively new tradition of celebrating the bounty around the time of the Autumn Equinox at Rock Farm, in previous years, when we've had plenty of produce to share. Harvest festival at Rock Farm is a time of hard work and joy as we reap the rewards of months of careful growing of vegetables and fruit.

 We celebrating that joy by sharing produce, song and film together to gather our thoughts and plans for the Winter ahead.

 We look forward to sharing that experience with you!

 FARMER'S MARKET & FARM TOURS 

 This year we are focussing on the combined talents of the local producers from the Slane Food Circle as well as other Boyne Valley Food Series producers:

 (11am to 5pm) Farmer's Market with artisan food, teas and coffees around the Strawbale Farm Office 

 (12pm - 4pm) Tours of Gold-certified Ecotourism Glamping overlooking Slane Castle and our new Strawbale Eco-Guesthouse (the Lime House) 

 (12pm to 4.30pm) Pop-up Pizza  

 Fresh homemade pizzas in our 2 wood-fired clay pizza ovens. Choose your own ingredients and wait for a new taste sensation €10/pizza.

 (2pm) Organic Farm Walk hosted by Alex Mount Charles (Slane Castle Whiskey Distillery) 

 (3pm) Green Building Workshop with Carina Mount Charles starting at the Strawbale Farm Office.

 Tickets will be sold separately for this event

 This one-hour condensed workshop will consist of a short presentation on our strawbale building project showing the different types of strawbale buildings (loading-bearing and timber-frame). We will then take a walk around the project to visit the different types of buildings. As part of our permaculture ethos we endeavour to use everything we grow from the straw from the barley fields for building to food and human waste (urine and humanure) for composting. The small residue of grey water and foul waste that we can't use goes into our new Integrated Constructed Wetland, which is at construction stage.

 This is a unique opportunity to see and learn about a variety of green building techniques and domestic-sized green waste management facilities. We have self-built compost toilets, Separett and Dubbletten compost toilets, an Aquatron, ICW as well as wormeries, bokashi buckets and a farm-scale composting system. 

THE LONG TABLE FEAST

(5:30pm - 10pm) No food event should be without its feast. This unique dining experience will be held in our new strawbuild the Lime House. This is an opportunity to break bread with friends old and new and share in the abundance of the harvest. Please bring a sharing plate of your own produce or invention to share at the table and in exchange you will get to sample the best of our local produce. 

We will finish the evening with a campfire and an acoustic session in the Pit beside the Lime House from the Wednesday Gang from Boyle's Pub in Slane (http://boylesofslane.com).

 For more details on Rock Farm Slane, please seewww.rockfarmslane.ie